College students from across North Carolina will arrive in Charlotte by the busload. Same with members of predominantly black churches in neighboring South Carolina.

Their goal: help fill a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium to capacity when President Obama accepts the Democratic nomination Thursday night.

Anything short of a full house on the final night of the Democratic Party's national convention will be instant fodder for Republicans eager to use empty seats as symbols of waning voter enthusiasm for Obama.

Hey - it was a "Team JOM" effort. As I wrote in a previous thread, kudos to all and particularly to TM, who provides this space for consideration and collaboration. This JOM community did it ! We did do Empty Chair Day.

(Damn, it feels great, doesn't it? But, we did that yesterday, what have we done for the Future of Our Great Republic today? As Jane has said, we need to get off the couch and save our country !)

As Rick Ballard might say and Glenn Reynolds has said, let's not get cocky. Still nine weeks before the election. There are telephone banks which need to be manned, door-to-door canvasing which needs to be done and radio shows, tea parties and rallies to hold and attend.

Hey - it was a "Team JOM" effort. As I wrote in a previous thread, kudos to all and particularly to TM, who provides this space for consideration and collaboration. This JOM community did it ! We did do Empty Chair Day.

(Damn, it feels great, doesn't it? But, we did that yesterday, what have we done for the Future of Our Great Republic today? As Jane has said, we need to get off the couch and save our country !)

As Rick Ballard might say and Glenn Reynolds has said, let's not get cocky. Still nine weeks before the election. There are telephone banks which need to be manned, door-to-door canvasing which needs to be done and radio shows, tea parties and rallies to hold and attend.

Jane - Hey! It's Windy. You got an iPhone! Get off of Twitter and go to wherever you have the image. I'm not sure what Apple calls it. Then there should be something that says "share this photo". Click on that and it should come up with a list of apps that you can share the photo with. Email should bee one of them.

On another note... This is absolutely ridiculous how big this has gotten.

I'm going to get ready for another long day of work. Text me if you have any questions!

I have a chair poster on the front door. It's still rainy and I have to run errands.
Wa Po says Obama smarting from You Didn't Build It fallout but will not address directly the charge that he's hostile to business. Instead they will claim RR is built on a "tripod of lies".

He's not answering the charge cause it's unanswerable. "A tripod of lies"? From a man who's in the WH because he peddled himself entirely as something he is not.

“Right now their campaign is built on a tripod of lies,” Plouffe told me [George Stephanopolous] this morning on “This Week.” “A welfare attack that is just absolutely untrue. The suggestion we’re raiding Medicare – absolutely untrue. And then this whole ‘we can’t build it’ nonsense.”

See you guys don't realize what you are dealing with. I spent half my morning trying to get my email on my Iphone and it keeps saying I have the wrong password, but I don't. Hopefully I have a nephew stopping by later.

Their judgment is shared by Mark Zandi, an Obama supporter and the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing crisis paved the way for the financial calamity and [the] Great Recession that followed,” he wrote in an Aug. 25 column for the Washington Post.

We have been monitoring the potential impact of the Republican convention on the presidential race on a day-by-day basis. So far, we don’t see an impact. We report a seven-day rolling average of registered voters each day, each of which is based on more than 3,000 interviews. This reporting period is a very purposeful decision on our part -- even if a bit more “sluggish” than if we reported a three- or four-day average. The longer average dampens down short-term changes, and puts more of an emphasis on sustained changes.

The seven-day average has been at 47% Obama, 46% Romney for the last five days. As a matter of fact, both Obama and Romney for the most part have been at or around 46% since we began tracking in April. The latest Gallup average covers Aug. 26-Sept. 1, or Sunday through Saturday. That for the most part covers the GOP convention, albeit with only two days of polling completely after Thursday's climactic events, including Mitt Romney’s speech, and actor Clint Eastwood’s appearance.

"We’re the richest country on earth—four and a half percent of the world’s people producing more than twenty percent of the world’s wealth."

That's an interesting inversion of Obama's frequent lament that we have two percent of the world's oil reserves but use 20 percent. Even if you accept his claim, it's not like we're just using oil to as little effect as government stimulus programs. We're a productive country, we do something with that oil, including produce goods that we export and that other countries benefit from.)

Proof, if any were needed, that Obama last Friday used the Fort Bliss soldiers as reelection props. And the Obama feet on WH desk pic is via the official WH photographer. Apparently, that disrespectful image is one Obama believes helps him with voters.

With the gigantic headline on National Empty Chair Day now on Drudge, if you can email to Matt Drudge the hilarious "If I had a son..." chair, Sara, I am betting that he will run it. Hard to top that kind of well-deserved ridicule.
Congratulations to everyone at JOM and LI for the therapeutic tonic!

Jane, my husband takes good pictures with his iPad and is able to send them with no problem. I say this and would have no idea how to post a photo of my chair on JOM. Actually, with the spirit of Janet working, I probably could make it work. Our annual neighborhood Labor Day block party--Omnia Vicit Labor-- is next door so I cannot get too in the face of my rabid liberal neighbors. The lone conservative across the street is "closeted" and does not talk politics with his three children. Sheesh!

On our 3-mile walk this morning, we spotted one chair out. Obama-Biden signs now firmly surround the religious left's local retirement commune for clueless clerics

On my way to Va on an errand I didn't see any empty chair business I could I.D. as part of today's thing but coming home from a different direction I saw one empty chair that was definitely part of the protest and it was just a block away from home.

Conservative media outlets are driving a Twitter campaign to dub Monday, both Labor Day and the first (albeit unofficial) day of the Democratic National Convention, as “empty chair day.” In a play on Clint Eastwood‘s RNC speech to an empty chair, intended to represent an absent President Barack Obama, Republican supporters are attacking Obama’s record under the hashtag #emptychairday. By Monday morning, the hashtag was trending on Twitter in the U.S.

"Gallup is out with a post-convention poll asking people whether last week's festivities in Tampa have made them more likely or less likely to vote for Mitt Romney. Answer: 40% are more likely, 38% are less likely. This is a net bounce of 2 percentage points, the lowest since Gallup started tracking this question a quarter of a century ago."

Maybe if something important had been said....besides inane comments to a chair, that is. lol

Dawn is just now breaking in Hawaii and my chair is ready to go out. We're at the top of a steep hill and don't really have a front yard so the chair -- along with the NoBama sign liberated from our garage wall -- will sit on our brick landing at the foot of our exterior stairs. Lordy, lordy, this is fun! All signage is forbidden in our neighborhood so I may get busted, which makes it even more exciting.